The Assignment: Make music from three randomly assigned vowels.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0059: Vowel Choral Drone

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Disquiet Junto Project 0050: -.......--.-..-...-

For the morse code I used SuperCollider to generate it. Dash is pink noise with a "square" envelope which is varied between 0.03 and 0.07secs long, dot is a very short sine envelope. The spacing between each sound has a varied length to give it some movement, there are general minimum times.

This was then moved in Ableton Live mixed and the other sounds added. 

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Code [disquiet0050-morsebeat]

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twenty twelve [disquiet0051-audiojournal]

I found this one really hard and have struggled with it, but here it is.

Method: 
1. End of the cat in the ocean, which went into SuperCollider, this code cuts it up and replays it in a random order with different samples left and right.

2. The intro of broken robots, this went straight into Ableton live and was messed up in there.

3. A 2.17 second sample from broken robot, this went into SuperCollider and I used code to cut it up into micro-sounds and to also generate the beat track.

All this went into Ableton where is was arranged and fx's applied.

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This Disquiet Junto project was done as a celebration of the efforts of the Bump Foot netlabel, and to support its employment of licenses that allow for derivative works. These Junto netlabel remix projects are intended to promote reworking as itself a means of music distribution. This track is comprised of three pieces of music, all originally released on Bump Foot: "Bongo" off the Aguas Tonicas album titled Los Desposeídos, "Broken Robots" off the Gridline album titled Red Music, and "The Cat in the Ocean" off the Pics Frunk album titled Low Voltage. More on the Bump Foot netlabel, and the original versions of these tracks, at http://www.bumpfoot.net/.

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the mat sat on the cat [0052-bumpcc]

Question: What if I cut Re into 3 second sections, let the software re-sequence the sections into a new order, shape with a sine envelope and put through a reverb and delay effect (with varying delay time and amount)?

Answer: Above.

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Re: question [disquiet0055-twoscrews]

With this one I wanted to create not just a rhythm track but have some texture in it, I used only Ableton Live and its built in effects.

Sound was recorded with a contact mic.

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mechanism [disquiet0056-materoftime]

For this week's assignment we were asked to create a composition using three 10 second samples of our voice. Each sound is to be a vowel, dictated by the roll of a six sided die. No other sounds are to be used.

1 = A, 2 = E , 3 = I, 4 = O, 5 = U , 6 = Y

I rolled an A, E, and O.

These were recorded into protools and exported to my Akai MPC 3K.  Some occasional mapping into a chromatic scale was used.  After loops were created with all three, each were assigned their own channels on a mixing board and fed into the mish-mash of Mooger-Fooger aux's I use. The most prominent being the scratchy arpeggios generated by the Midi Murf.

A touch of reverb was applied (let's not kid here—a shitload of reverb was applied) using the Eventide Space.

I'm going to assume I feature effects too much, against the spirit of the assignment, but I kept going with the notion of always having some of the bare voice present.

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Too Much Light [disquiet0059-vwls]

 bleary eyed, i rolled 1, 4, 6 > post-cereal vocal drones demonstrating lack of vocal control recorded to MiniDisc > transferred to Audacity where they were trimmed > exported to Audiomulch where they were looped & faded in (at dice-selected points) > exported to FruityLoops where they were EQd slightly & their panning was scrabbled with > uploaded to here

i am a little concerned that my y sounds too much like an e.

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I BELIEVE THIS SOUND FULFILLSTHE CRITERIA OF THIS WEEKS ASSIGNMENT..

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a, o, y (recurring) [disquiet0059-vwls]

No grand design for this project.  I rolled a die three times and received 4, 1, and 6 (O, A, and Y).  Then simply decided on three notes to correspond to the three vowels.  Recorded into Pro Tools and set about editing, pitch-shifting, and layering the three vowels.  There were a few iterations of the piece that had much more chaotic pulsing which in this version was edited down significantly.  I have to say that the very simple rules made for a nice way to spend my morning.

Kit: SM58, Pro Tools, SoundHack +bubbler

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Accident/Occident/Yccident [disquiet0059-vwls]

Disquiet Junto Project 0059: Vowel Choral Drone*
This week’s project involves the human voice. You will create a choral drone from
three samples that you will create with your own voice. This project requires a
single die, or the digital equivalent.
So I rolled the dice - three to be exact - I got a 2, 5 & 6 so I had to sing E, U and Y decided to keep the numbers for everything else in my track. I (time) pitched by 2, 5 and 6 half steps, I duplicated the samples and panned them accordingly....in the process I pictured myself singing in a choir in some sort of monastery or church, so I added a large reverb to the master. The track starts with the three unaffected recordings...
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disquiet0059-vwls - Dicing up and away

Disquiet Junto Project 0059: Vowel Choral Drone

Instructions

This week’s project involves the human voice. You will create a choral drone from three samples that you will create with your own voice. This project requires a single die, or the digital equivalent.

Here are the steps in the project:

Step 1: Roll a die three times (or three dice once) to determine which vowels you will use. Depending on your luck, you may end up with two or even three of the same vowel.

1 = A (“a” as in “yay”); 2 = E (“e” as in “bee”); 3 = I (“i” as in “die”); 4 = O (“o” as in “yo”); 5 = U (“u” as in “you”); 6 = Y (“y” as in “Sylvia”)

Step 2: For each vowel that you have been assigned by the dice, record a 10-second sample of you holding that vowel as a constant tone (volume, timbre, note, etc.).

Step 3: Create a choral drone that utilizes only these three sources of audio. You can treat them with effects lightly, but they should be recognizable as the human voice throughout the duration of track.

Information:

Holding any kind of bearable note for 10 seconds was challenge enough! I recorded a couple of versions of each (the dice gave me 1, 2 and 5), picking the "best" version for use . I threw these into Kontakt and played around with them in Ableton Live until I was happy with the results. There's plenty of pitching and a little time-stretching, but apart from some compression and EQ, there's not much else. I restrained my usually granular synthesis urges to a tiny barely audible background patch.

Credits:

Photo: Pool in Gaujac by @echosonic

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Miroitant de l'eau [disquiet0059-vwls]

First reaction was I hate the sound of my voice recorded, but I'll give it a go as I can add effects. Then the dice rolling gave me 5 4 4 = U O O..... only two sounds. I recorded the U and the first O straight to my R09, for the second O I recorded it by attaching a contact mic to a tourist-tat coconut shell drum skin thing and used this for a diaphragm.

I tried to hold the sound as long as possible and only did one take on each, I then took a 10 second sample from each sound.

I then used SuperCollider to create a play buffer SynthDef with sine envelope and then added some effects (Resonance, cross faded delay and reverb). I made up 3 simple loops with the SynthDef and the controlled these on and off manually and recoded the first complete take (I kept maxing out my memory and crashing the SC sever!).

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UOO[disquiet0059-vwls]

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